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Former UN Ambassador and National Security Advisor Susan E. Rice Joins Belfer Center as Senior Fellow

Cambridge, MA – Harvard Kennedy School’s Belfer Center for Science and International Affairs has named former U.S. Ambassador to the United Nations and National Security Advisor Susan E. Rice a ...
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Social capital: Predicting an epidemic of loneliness—and prescribing the solution

IN 2023, then-U.S. Surgeon General Vivek Murthy called loneliness an epidemic. In an advisory on the issue, he wrote, “Loneliness is far more than just a bad feeling—it harms both individual and ...
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The Three Trillion Dollar War: The True Cost of the Iraq Conflict

Apart from its tragic human toll, the Iraq War will be staggeringly expensive in financial terms. In The Three Trillion Dollar War, Nobel Prize winner Joseph E. Stiglitz and Harvard professor Linda J.
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The Current State of Bail Reform in the United States: Results of a Landscape Analysis of Bail Reforms Across All 50 States

This report discusses cash bail reforms that have occurred in the United States and provides key considerations for people interested in implementing bail reforms in their jurisdiction. Based on a ...
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HKS on the Road

View our past HKS on the Road event photos in the caption links. 79 John F. Kennedy Street ...
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News & Announcements

Samantha Power, former USAID administrator and U.S. ambassador to the United Nations, returns to Harvard with a joint faculty appointment at the Kennedy School and the Law School ...
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Groundbreakers: How Obama’s 2.2 Million Volunteers Transformed Campaigning in America

Missing from most accounts of the 2008 and 2012 campaigns to elect Barack Obama president is the story of how Obama for America organized 2.2 million volunteers into a grassroots army. Unlike many ...
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Leadership Development in the Age of Artificial Intelligence

This Policy Analysis Exercise (PAE) was conducted for the Human Leadership Lab (HLL) and explores the intersection of Generative Artificial Intelligence and leadership development. We mapped how ...
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Shackled to the Past: The Causes and Consequences of Africa’s Slave Trades

Shackled to the Past: The Causes and Consequences of Africa’s Slave Trades. Nathan Nunn, August 2008, Book Chapter."This chapter uses statistical techniques to assess whether there is evidence that ...
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Public Diplomacy and Soft Power

Nye, Jr., Joseph S. "Public Diplomacy and Soft Power." The Annals of the American Academy of Political and Social Science 616.1 (March 2008): 94-109.
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Social Movements and Public Opinion in the United States

Recent social movements stand out by their spontaneous nature and lack of stable leadership, raising doubts on their ability to generate political change. This article provides systematic evidence on ...
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Fintech, Financial Inclusion, and The Future of Finance

2024, Paper: "This paper explores the impact of financial technology (fintech) on financial in clusion, focusing on the cost of accessing essential financial services as a metric for financial ...